Sydney > Alice Springs

In Sydney for about 4-5 days and off again, just how we like it, one job to the next. Unfortunately only managed to get a 10 min surf in though, will have to wait till I get back from this job. Leaving Sydney on a grey rainy day, but as soon as we cross the blue mountains the clouds clear and we can see the great big land spread out in front of us Cobar, outback NSW The mighty Darling river, north of Tilpa outback nsw, really starting to appreciate how BIG this country is salt lake in the shape of the top part of Australia when I see this countryside like this from the air, it makes me just want to get one of those rigged up 4WD and go for a 2 week drive outback :-) harsh, yet beautiful landscape Around Sturt national park and Tibooburra somewhere down there is the Dingo Fence no towns out here somewhere near Moomba Moomba, the begining of the Strzelecki Desert Lake Miraditchie, but what the hell are all those lines about, I mean, there are no towns down there, bugger all people, so who created those lines and why, they are in a grid pattern and not perfectly straight probably because of thr contour of the land, anyone  ? from top Coorie Coorie Gillie, then Lake Coogiecooginna and at the bottomw lake Bulpanie So I just had a close look at Google earth, and their sat pics are dated 2006 and this grid pattern is not to be seen in this exact same spot ( to the west of Lake Coogiecooginna ) but there are visible in areas near here on google earth I really super curious now
Sturt Stoney Desert I'm guessing somewhere near the Gibber plains the lakes ( with water after last years rain ) to the east of simpson's desert simpson desert, big red sand dune kind of place rows and rows of sand dunes zoomed in, would love to get down there one day, but then, like I said, in a fully equiped 4WD with all the bells and whistles, portable fridge, lots of refreshments , and if possible dust free inside hehehe so big, just goes for, well as big as a big european country probably 140 km as the crow flies from Alice Springs and, my first time out here, was expecting it all to be flat, but instead, I see quite a lot of mountain ranges just look at that colour ! ! ! woauw, and the line you see in the top right of the photo is the Hale River ( which is probably dry for most of the year ) zoomed in, woauw !!, look at that colour. I hope I get to come here while in Alice Springs the geography & geology is just incredible, I think that is an out ring of the East MacDonnel ranges the road from Alice Springs to Chamber Pillars, and soon we will be on this road as in the center of this photo is one of the proposed locations Ooraminna homestead descending down to the airport now ( well we have been for a bit already ) one of the many dry creek beds round Alice Springs, airport is about in the middle of the photo railway line crossing creek Hatt Road not the airport as I first thought, but a race track and the dust in the distance is a truck on the dirt road to Chambers Pillars, we will be on there in about 40 min and get blinded by that same dust of a truck speeding past us :-)

Comments

[Maria Ellers]

Hey Sonny thanks great photo's.
I spent 2 months out there when I was a kid (8 years old) with my best Friend Debbie and her family. Her grand parents owned Ooratippra Station it was about 100 miles north of Alice. Debbie lives out there still in the Simpson Desert driving Camels. It was the trip of a life time cheers Maria